John Francis Lane Mullins PC,

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, JP (12 June 1857 – 24 February 1939) was an Australian politician and prominent Catholic

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in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century

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. He was born in

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to clerk James Mullins and Eliza Lane from

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, Ireland. He studied at the

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, becoming a solicitor in 1885. On 14 April 1885 he married Jane Hughes, with whom he had five children. He served on

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from 1900 to 1904 and from 1906 to 1912, and in 1903 was appointed

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and Privy Chamberlain to

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. From 1917 to 1934 he was a

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(later

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) member of the

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. Lane Mullins died at Elizabeth Bay in 1939. John Lane Mullins was an avid book collector and was known as the Australian founding father of the Australian Bookplate Movement and was the first President of the Australian Ex Libris Society. He is buried at

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Arms

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lane Mullins, John 1857 births 1939 deaths Directors and Presidents of the Art Gallery of New South Wales Nationalist Party of Australia members of the Parliament of New South Wales United Australia Party members of the Parliament of New South Wales Members of the New South Wales Legislative Council Papal chamberlains Knights Commander of the Order of St Gregory the Great Australian book and manuscript collectors